Claim:
Singer Barbra Streisand sang “God Bless America” in response to anti-American chants shouted at a New York City concert occurring in October 2025.
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A rumor that circulated online — primarily on Facebook — in October 2025 claimed eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand recently sang “God Bless America” in response to anti-American chants shouted during a New York City concert. According to the story, the chants erupted near the stage, occurring midway through her performance. Snopes received several reader emails asking about this matter, including one user inquiring, “Did Barbra Streisand sing God Bless America at a concert in NYC when anti-American protesters heckled her?”
In one social media example, on Oct. 20, a user managing the Echoes of Elegance Facebook page posted (archived) the story with an alleged picture of Streisand placing her hand over her heart in front of an American flag. The post included a link leading to an advertisement-filled blog article, redirecting from the chillhome.info website domain to virevo.feji.io.
(Echoes of Elegance/Facebook)
The text of the post began:
BREAKING NEWS: Barbra Streisand Took a Stand Last Night That No One Saw Coming — but No One Will Ever Forget 🇺🇸
Midway through her breathtaking concert in New York City, as a handful of anti-American chants erupted near the front of the stage, the legendary singer didn’t lash out. She didn’t storm off.
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Instead, Barbra Streisand gripped her microphone, offered a calm, steady smile, and began softly singing “God Bless America” with deep, soulful conviction.
In short, the rumor Streisand performed in New York City in October 2025, where she “took a stand” against anti-American chants by singing “God Bless America,” was false. Users residing outside the U.S. promoted the fabricated story — including with the Streisand-flag photo and text, both generated with artificial-intelligence (AI) tools — to earn advertising revenue from the blog articles linked in Facebook posts.
Barbra-Archives.com and ConcertArchives.org — two websites cataloging decades of concert performances — reported no recent Streisand tour dates. Searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo also found no news media outlets reporting the story. Prominent outlets would have widely reported this rumor, if true, due to its involvement of patriotism and politics.
Chris Andrews, a Streisand representative working for Creative Artists Agency (CAA), told Snopes by email that the rumor was “totally false,” saying she had not performed in New York City “in a long time.”
Via Messenger, we contacted the Echoes of Elegance page — a page with a “page transparency” tab displaying owners in Vietnam and the Philippines — to ask about their content and will update this story if we receive further information.
AI propelled the false Streisand rumor
The Echoes of Elegance Facebook post and other posts on their feed featured AI-generated images of Streisand. For example, regarding the image showing her in front of the American flag, its overly smooth appearance provided one clue of its AI origins. A scan of that image with the AI-detection website Sightengine displayed a 99% likelihood someone created the picture with an AI tool.
The end of the post’s text also resembled the same way AI tools conclude their AI-generated stories with forward-thinking, dramatized and inspirational word choices:
Flags waved. Tears streamed down faces. The chants melted into silence.
Barbra didn’t fight with anger — she answered with grace, strength, and love for her country.
“Patriotism isn’t about shouting,” she said afterward, her voice trembling. “It’s about caring enough to sing when the world forgets how.”
The audience erupted — not in chaos, but in reverence — standing together as one.
That night, Barbra Streisand didn’t just perform — she reminded America what it means to lead with heart, not heat.
This story resembled glurge, which Dictionary.com defines as stories “that are supposed to be true and uplifting, but which are often fabricated and sentimental.”
For further reading, Snopes previously reported on another story claiming Streisand sued Karoline Leavitt for $50 million after the White House press secretary launched a shocking verbal assault on her.
